NorthWest History. National Topics. Mis-N.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: professional zoologists; salt water fishes spend their Winters in fresh water; Field Museum News; Chicago; Labrador and Baffin Land; Rawson-MacMillan Subarctic Expedition Alfred C. Weed; assistant curator of fishes of the museum; Northwest Pacific > History > 20th Century; National Topics. Mis-N. > 20th Century; Pacific; Baffin; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/149947

Fish Change Habitat Fresh-Water Species Live In Sea and Vice Versa, Says Curator. Fish Change Habitat Fresh-Water Species Live In Sea and Vice Versa, Says Curator. Not widely known except among professional zoologists is the fact that certain salt water fishes spend their Winters in fresh water, while some fresh water fish go into salt water for a season, says Field Museum News, Chicago. While in Labrador and Baffin Land on the Rawson-MacMillan Subarctic Expedition of the Field Museum some years ago, Alfred C. Weed, assistant curator of fishes of the museum, caught a number of fishes usually regarded as strictly fresh water species, such as brook trout and pickerel, in salt water. Likewise, in fresh water streams and lakes of the region, he caught such salt water inhabitants as cod and jellyfish. At other seasons he found these same creatures in the kinds of waters to which they are native.